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Director: Matt Owens
Choreographer: Gretchen Obergefell
Music Director: Jenn Clark

Monday, April 22, or Tuesday, April 23, at 7pm each night
Callbacks on Wednesday, April 24, at 7pm

Performance dates are June 21-30

Prepare one minute of a Broadway-style song that demonstrates your vocal abilities and character.  An accompanist and Bluetooth speaker will be provided.

Auditioners should also be prepared to learn a brief dance combination to demonstrate movement ability.

Please arrive early to fill out audition form, which will include a listing of any conflicts between April 29 and the opening of the show on June 21.

We are looking for diverse performers to build a vocally strong ensemble of five women and at least five men who can each independently hold a harmony line.

Character Breakdown (general “stage age” listed in parentheses):
Grace Banker (mid 20s-30s): From Passaic, New Jersey; the leader of the squadron that went to the front, she received the Distinguished Service Medal for her bravery under fire; graduated from Barnard in 1915 and worked at AT&T as a telephone operator and supervisor before joining the army; articulate and poised, with a core of steely strength that makes itself apparent as she grows into her role as leader.

Suzanne Prevot (mid 20s-30s): From New York City; feisty, sardonic, tough talking; a close friend of Grace’s from AT&T; she was among the few who lived to be officially recognized by the Army; very invested in the fight for women’s suffrage and leads the women’s fight for recognition after the war.

Louise LeBreton (late teens-early 20s): From San Francisco; fearless, flirty, headstrong and often insubordinate; she lies about her age to join the army; born in France, she has family fighting with the French army.

Helen Hill (early 20s-30s): From outside Boise, Idaho; a typical small town farm girl. From a family of 17 children with a mother who speaks French; sweet, over-enthusiastic, wholesomely kooky and prone to nervous panic.

Bertha Hunt (30s-40s): From San Francisco; married to a Navy doctor who is also serving; older, wiser, reliable; The Den Mother; extremely knowledgeable about military matters.

Cpt. Joseph Riser (30s to 40s): The Signal Corps commanding officer who recruits and trains the women, and journeys with them to the front; a career army man, a stickler for rules and order, he is skeptical of the women’s presence in the army, even as his own success relies on theirs; he develops a close working relationship with Grace, who challenges his world view and converts him to an advocate.

Gen. John Pershing (40s to 50s): Commander of the American Expeditionary Forces; Hard, relentless, inflexible, with a deep sense of honor and American individualism and identity.

Pvt. Eugene Matterson* (20s to 30s): An enlisted man who works closely with Lt. Riser.

Lt. Ernest Wessen* (20s to 30s): Head of the recruiting center for the Signal Corps

Pvt. Robert Dempsey* (20s to 30s): A Signal Corps operator at the Paris Telephone Exchange

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ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS By Richard Bean
Based on The Servant of Two Masters by Carlo Goldoni
With songs by Grant Oldin

FEBRUARY 12 AND 13 at 7pm

AUDITIONS WILL CONSIST OF COLD READINGS FROM THE SCRIPT

CAST REQUIREMENTS

• FRANCIS – M – mid 30s – Ex-skiffle band member hired by two guvnors
• STANLEY STUBBERS –M- Late 20s to 30s – Privately educated, 2nd Master
• RACHAEL CRABBE – F (disguised as brother Roscoe) – mid 20s to 30s – 1st Master
• HARRY DANGLE –M- 60s – Crooked solicitor
• CHARLIE “THE DUCK” CLENCH – M- 50 to 60 – sketchy businessman, Pauline’s father
• LLOYD BOATENG – M – 50s- a Jamaican, friend to Charlie Clench
• PAULINE CLENCH – F- 20s – Clench’s daughter, fiancé of Alan & Roscoe
• ALAN – M- 20s – Son of Dangle, fiancé of Pauline
• DOLLY – F – late 20s to mid 30s- Charlie Clench’s book keeper
• GARETH –M- 30s – Head Waiter
• ALFIE – M- Plays 86 – waiter, moves slow and gingerly but has much physical comedy
• POLICEMAN/CAB DRIVER
• EXTRAS

Brighton, England. 1963. Change is in the air, and Francis Henshall is looking to make his mark. Fired from a skiffle band and in search of work, he finds himself employed by small-time gangster Roscoe Crabbe, in town to collect a fee from his fiancee’s gangster father. But Roscoe is really Rachel, posing as her own dead brother, herself in love with Stanley Stubbers (her brother’s killer) who, in turn, becomes our hero’s other ‘guvnor’. Fighting a mounting sense of confusion, Francis goes out of his way to serve both bosses. But with the distractions of a pneumatic book keeper, a self-important actor and select members of the criminal fraternity (not to mention his own mammoth appetite) to contend with, how long can he keep them apart? Richard Bean’s hilarious comedy received 5-star reviews from every London newspaper and was the hit of the 2012 Broadway season.

Production dates: April 19-28

For more information visit www.bctheatre.org/auditions.